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[[Image:Fath Ali Shah Qajar Firman in Shikasta Nastaliq script January 1831.jpg|thumb|200px|[[Fath Ali Shah Qajar]] honors George Willock (Henry's brother) with the [[Order of the Lion and the Sun]]]]<br />
'''Sir Henry Willock''' (1790{{spaced ndash}}August 17, 1858) was a [[lieutenant-colonel]] and the British Envoy to [[Persia]] from 1815-1826.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelpregion/asia/afghanistan/afghanistancollection/whowaswho/whowaswho.html |title=Who was who in Central Asia (British) |work=bl.uk |publisher=The British Library |accessdate=20 February 2012 |archive-date=24 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121024202756/http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelpregion/asia/afghanistan/afghanistancollection/whowaswho/whowaswho.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> He was the chairman of the [[East India Company]] (EIC) in 1844–45.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.richmond.gov.uk/home/leisure_and_culture/local_history_and_heritage/people_of_historial_note_buried_in_the_borough_m_to_z.htm |title=People of historical note buried in the borough M to Z |work=richmond.gov.uk |publisher=London Borough of Richmond upon Thames Civic Centre |accessdate=20 February 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111027180834/http://richmond.gov.uk/home/leisure_and_culture/local_history_and_heritage/people_of_historial_note_buried_in_the_borough_m_to_z.htm |archivedate=27 October 2011 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title= News of the Week |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vswhAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA820 |newspaper=The Spectator |date=12 July 1845 |accessdate=20 February 2012}}</ref> Willock married Elizabeth Davis, daughter of EIC Director and orientalist [[Samuel Davis (orientalist)|Samuel Davis]], in 1826.<ref>{{cite book|title=A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire|last=Burke|first=Bernard|author-link=Bernard Burke|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GCZBAQAAMAAJ|year=1860|publisher=Harrison and Sons|location=London|page=271}}</ref><br />
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